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“Beggars must be no choosers.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Scornful Lady (act V, sc. 3)
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“Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report
sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a
company of boys about him."”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, mem. 4, subsect. 6)
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“Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.
[Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.]”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, memb. 2)
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“Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer
alight.”
Robert Greene Quotes Source: Card of Fancie
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“To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside;
Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: No Bashfulnesse in Begging
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“Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
[Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes Source: La Matrone d'Ephese
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“Borrowing is not much better than begging.
[Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]”
Ephraim Gotthold Lessing Quotes Source: Nathan der Weise (II, 9)
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“The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
[Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist
Doch einzig und allein der wahre Konig.]”
Ephraim Gotthold Lessing Quotes Source: Nathan der Weise (II, 9)
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“A beggar through the world am I,
From place to place I wander by.
Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me,
For Christ's sweet sake and charity.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Beggar
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“A pampered menial drove me from the door.”
Thomas Moss Quotes Source: The Beggar
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“I'd just as soon a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why;
A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,
Nor be half so happy as I.
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Let the back and side go bare.”
Old Song Quotes Source: Old English Folk Song--Folk Songs from Somerset, by Cecil Sharpe
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“He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
[Lat., Qui timide rogat,
Docet negare.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: Hippolytus (II, 593)
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“Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and
sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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“It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen,
Unless the adage must be verified,
That beggars mounted run their horse to death.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Plantagenet, Duke of York at I, iv)
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“Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for my hand, as unattempted yet,
Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
And say there is no sin but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be
To say there is no vice but beggary.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at II, i)
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“I see, sir, you are liberal in offers.
You taught me first to beg, and now methinks
You teach me how a beggar should be answered.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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